HAIFA: Israel is to host Miss Universe for the first time, staging the televised beauty pageant in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, the tourism ministry said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila).

"I fully hope that in December we will be celebrating not only the new Miss Universe here in Israel, but most importantly, the end of the world pandemic," Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov said in a video statement.

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